ღალი

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Laz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Kartvelian *ɣel- (ravine, gully). Compare Georgian ღელე (ɣele, stream, fleet, creek, ford).

Noun

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ღალი (ğali) (Latin spelling ğali) (VitseArkabi, KhopaBatumi)

  1. river, creek, stream
    Synonyms: რუბა (ruba), აბჯა (abca), აბჟა (abja)
    ღალეფე დოსქურეზ
    ğalepe doskurez
    Streams dried up

Further reading

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  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 851
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*ɣelo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 222
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ğali”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-09
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ღალი”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 200a
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ღალი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi